Oh, I must have misread or invented something: He doesn't talk about teddy bears (he used that expression a bit differently a long while ago in connection with Saddam Hussein, and in his second latest column he does not talk about Teddy, but about Franklin Roosevelt!), no, he doesn't, he talks about dogs! Same difference... He even talks about puppies, to make it quite clear how dear he holds his fellow American citizens. :)

Anyway, his article also (if I may still use this adverb today) quotes the best definition ever of democracy: "in its purest form," democracy means "51 percent of the people can pee in the cornflakes of 49 percent of the people." My comment: Is that then sort of a free lunch from those 51 % people, but financed from the pockets of the 49 %?

But you better read his full column yourself, which is introducing to you those intruding safeguardians, as it offers deadly serious, deep, important political thought ~~ and be lucky that politicians break promises! And then also read his very latest column. It is really sublime satire. Here they are both:

Democracy: It's for the Dogs

On Presidents and Plant Life

Now I am becoming deadly serious, drums please: If Jonathan David Morris continues writing the way he does lately (not even taking into account all the many great pages he has been spoiling us with since years), there is not the slightest doubt for me that one day he will occupy one of the most solid marble pedestals in the pantheon of American literature. He is still very young and has a long writing career ahead. His recent marriage seems to have given him the final roborant. Let us thank her too! And thanks to that marriage he also moved closer to the Liberty Bell! Geographically as well as philosophically. Or was there something in that Cohiba??? :)

Finally, an apology from me for being again late with putting those two columns online, the oldest one by over a week. I would like to lie and say that I was unable to do it earlier, as I became sort of positively paralyzed (as my cat had been negatively) through reading those masterpieces and needed the time to get mobile again. But no, it was more prosaic: A certain Mr. Fartansee from my no value added reseller had not made the slightest humane effort to speed up the delivery of my new monitor. As someone working on the Internet, I can't afford to be netless. But I was for nearly eleven long 24 hour days. In addition, last night, a bug in my version of the Greymatter software, had seen to it that 15 of my latest entries in this "CB's notewok" simply disappeared from view on my home page if I insisted on keeping the very latest entry there (the one just below), which simply had to stay, as I had asked Ken Schoolland and Ilana Mercer to have a look at it. I was, like always, helped by the nicest man on earth and the greatest expert, Rob Arnold, better known as linear. Don't miss his extraordinary slide show (165 pics). Thanks, linear!